Medicine & Mortality

October 30–December 12, 2009

Medical technology’s capacity to modify, preserve, and extend life has surpassed our psychological ability to integrate these advances. The tools, procedures and detritus of body intervention are the focus of the work of Vermont Artists Linda E. Jones, Sasanqua Link and Nathaniel Price. Link’s meticulously fabricated sculptures combine fantastical medical equipment with highly realistic, ambiguous fragments of body parts, which are simultaneously sensual, disquieting and morbidly fascinating. Jones creates contemporary reliquaries, preserving artifacts from family medical procedures—stitches, crowns, tubing, x-rays, excised flesh in encaustic wax—and incorporates them into her multi-layered organic paintings and installations. Price – a recent resident in internal medicine at UVM/FAHC – draws on his interest in pathology and probes the boundaries of portraiture. In the tradition of Mary Shelley these artists capture the uncanny mixture of fascination and revulsion with the trespass of technology on the human body.

Exhibition sponsored by Seven Days Newspaper, Stephen and Burns Salon and Spa.

Location: Firehouse Gallery

135 Church Street, next to City Hall

Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Ground Floor

Burlington, VT, 05401

Phone: 802-865-7165

Contact: Amanda Sanfilippo

asanfilippo@ci.burlington.vt.us

Directions: The Firehouse Gallery is located on the street level of the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts in downtown Burlington next to City Hall on the Church Street Marketplace.

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